one of the buildings on the mount.
leading up to the abbey are a ton of touristy shops and eateries, and tons and tons of people.
just an example of some typical french seafood that I saw in a restaurant as we walked by.
(This reminds me of the Mr. Bean movie Mr. Bean's Holiday , http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1247254528/tt0453451
What ? This isn't your dinner?
So, you can see here the road that leads to Mt. St. Michel which ends in parking lots. the parking lots at the bottom of the photo are closest to the Mount and have signs that say, At such an hour today these parking lots will be covered with water.
looking out from the Mount. I couldn't get enough of the way the water sits on the sand. It's not a river or a lake, or even a swamp. It is ocean that is at this moment not covered completely. so strange and cool.
people walking across the sand. I would have loved to do this but it just didn't fit into the day and would have been hard with kids.
oh, by the way it was rainy this day, until about the time we were leaving.
this justifies our calling it a castle church.
This reminds me of Indiana Jones, mysterious numbers on the floor.
I love how you can see how wet this place is by all the moss and growth on the buildings.
love this photo! Cado's face...what a crack up!
you can see that this cathedral (abbey) has a much more modest feeling to it than many other cathedrals. It was grand and amazing of course, but not at all gaudy. These stained glass windows are cool though because each one is a different geometric pattern made up of a ton of tiny pieces of pale glass. It was different and I thought cool.
Mont St. Michel
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We explained this place to our kids as a "church castle." In truth it is an island hill surrounded by sand and at high tide, by water. The tallest point is part of the Abbey that makes up a large portion of the island.